{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/363",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulations 12 and 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (restriction on rent increases) as saved by regulation 4(3) of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1997 for “may” where it first appears there shall be substituted “shall”.\n(2) In regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations (requirement to refer to rent officers)—\n(a) in paragraph (1A)(b), for “1(d)” there shall be substituted “1(a)(iv) and (c)”;\n(b) paragraph (1A)(c) shall be omitted; and\n(c) in paragraph (7A), for “specified in paragraph (1ZA)” there shall be substituted “to which paragraph (1A)(b) applies”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 12 was amended by S.I. 1989/566, and omitted by regulation 3(3) of S.I. 1997/852 (subject to savings); Paragraph (1) of that regulation as saved was amended by S.I. 2001/1605, Schedule 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/852."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 12A was inserted by S.I. 1990/546 and paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.I. 1995/2868."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "These words were substituted by S.I. 1999/2734 and will revive on 1st or 7th April 2003 by virtue of regulation 13 of that S.I."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Regulation 12A(1A)(c) was inserted by regulation 10 of S.I. 1998/563 and was temporarily omitted by S.I. 1999/2734."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Paragraph (7A) was inserted by S.I. 2000/4 and was amended by S.I. 2001/1605."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/363/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:56.493707+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}